IR blaster functionality

[Bromf]

 

That's not going to work I think, go to https://www.lirc.org/, and under supported hardware, look for anything that says transmitter. say the serial transmitter (If your computer has a serial port).

If you are lucky, you might be able to find one of the HP USB receiver/transmitter dongle, and then you can plug in your IR transmitter into it. But I havn't try this myself

Thanks AK. thats not what I really wanted to hear.... there seems to be a disconnect between the LIRC page of compatible devices and whats available locally. I see Jaycar have something to try https://www.jaycar.com.au/single-ir-emit...4/p/AR1811

Lirc is so under-documented and lags several releases behind any current OS...users generally have to experiment with major breakage before one stumbles upon a working recipe...only to find an update kills it all.
Elsewhere I use Flirc... but some mapping and keycodes would be needed for Snakeoil.  Triggerhappy is the go-to currently for Flirc.
Maybe AK could add it to the todo list...but you or I could do some research too...
https://packages.debian.org/buster/triggerhappy
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/prec...thd.1.html